UTT Throwback Thursday: ISNA Was and Is a Jihadi Organization
In 1963, the first US-based national Islamic organization – the Muslim Students Association (MSA) – was created by the Muslim Brotherhood at the University of Illinois, Urbana. In the early 1980’s the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood created the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) as the next generation of the MSA – headquartered in Plainfield, Indiana […]
If Muslims Are Honest About Jihad, They Think They’re Winning
After 9/11/01, Americans were told Islam does not “stand for violence” and that Islam “rejects” violence, despite the fact the 19 hijackers were all muslims stating they killed nearly 3,000 Americans because it is a command from Allah. Then we heard the “concept of jihad” was a part of Islam, but it is a […]
UTT Throwback Thursday: Contrary Ideas Always Meet Resistance
When one of America’s great unsung heroes, John C. Houbolt, put forth the idea to NASA the “Lunar Orbit Rendezvous” (LOR) was the best way to get men to the moon and return them safely to the earth, he was harshly criticized. In a meeting full of fellow scientists, Max Faget – one of the […]
US Government’s Inward Focus Blinds It To The Outward Threat
“The duty of the muslim citizen is to be loyal to the Islamic State” What Islam is All About, most widely used text book in U.S. Islamic junior high schools Until the United States makes an affirmative decision to identify our enemy, know the enemy’s doctrine and strategy, and defeat the enemy, America will continue […]
UTT Throwback Thursday: No Wider Plot?
If a Special Forces soldier was captured in a foreign land with which America was at war, would our enemy consider him a “lone wolf” disconnected from any “wider plot” or larger army? On March 11, 2004, 10 bombs were detonated on four trains by Islamic jihadis in Madrid, Spain killing 191 people and injuring […]
Al Qaeda & ISIS are Correct About Islam
When the Caliph of the Islamic caliphate, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, says Islam requires all muslims to participate in jihad until sharia is the law of the land, he is correct. Al Qaeda’s co-founder and former emir Osama bin Laden said: “It is a duty for the Umma with all its categories, men, women and youths, to […]
UTT Throwback Thursday: The Last Fatwa
The Ottoman Empire – the last Islamic Caliphate prior to the current one claimed by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi – was established at the end of the thirteenth century, and was not dissolved until the early 1920’s. The last sitting Caliph to issue a fatwa – Islamic legal ruling – was Mehmed V […]
UTT: Real Truth About Real Threats
Last week’s UTT article entitled “Unfit for Duty” makes the point that two of the men professionally responsible to the President of the United States for speaking truthfully about national security threats – LtGen HR McMaster and Sebastian Gorka – are not doing so, specifically as it relates to the Islamic threat. In response to the […]
UTT Throwback Thursday: Will the Present Remain the Past?
Stephen Coughlin arguably understands the enemy threat doctrine and how our enemy operates strategically better than anyone else in America. In 2008, Coughlin – an attorney with an expertise in international law and a Major in the U.S. Army (reserves) specializing in intelligence and strategic communications – was called to the Pentagon after 9/11 and […]
Where is Suit-Wearing Jihadi Suhail Khan Today?
Prolific suit-wearing jihadi Suhail Khan was in the White House on 9/11. After officials discovered his father was a prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader, he was moved out, but found himself back in the fold in a relatively short amount of time, serving two Secretaries of Transportation in the Bush administration. This gave Suhail Khan a […]